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Office Supt Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands, 
For Lafayette and Columbia Counties, Arkansas
Louisville, Lafayette County, Ark, Sept 14, 1867  

Mr. Wm M. Colby
Supt of Education 

Sir, 
I have the honor to request that a competent teacher may be sent as soon as possible to this place to open a school.
I have on file in my office the obligations of responsible freedmen to pay such teachers a salary of ($75) Seventy-five dollars per month. I have reason to believe that by opening a night school, the salary would be increased $25 or $50 dollars 
If you can furnish a teacher that furnishes the qualifications of a gentleman and a scholar, I will use all my influence to establish a school that will be permanently and one that will pay him well for his services. 
The freedmen in the town have promised me that they will build a good common School house as soon as they are assured that they will be furnished with a teacher that will justify them in so doing; (over)